vishnu sahasra namam stanza- 16

[Bharathi]

STANZA-16

bhrajis nur bho janam bhokta
sahisnur jagadadijah
anagho vijayo jera
visvayonih punarvasuh

Word Meaning:

Bhrajisnuh) = The one with shinning nature

(Bhojanam) = that which is eaten for

sustenance

(Bhokta) = One who eats and sustains
himself

(Sahisnuh) = One who has enduring nature

Jagadidijah) = One who is born as the
beginning of creation

(Anaghah) = untouched by sin

(Vijayah) = success

Ueta) = the conqueror

(Viswayonih) = the .womb of the universe

(Punarvasuh) = the replenishing one


MEANING:

Invoke the Lord as having shining nature and who is the food of
all. He is also in the form of the eater of food. The Lord is
the one who endures all. He is the one born as the first creation in
the beginning. Untouched by sin, he shines as success and as the one
conqueror of all. He is the birth place of all things and has
everything as his birth-place. He is the replenishing principle of
all.

Explanation :

1. Nature is the brilliance of the Lord and through it. He shines
forth into his objectivity. He knows himself and he sees himself as
all the beings by virtue of his power of brilliance. Everyone knows
all others and the environment also by the same power of His
brilliance which is called maya or conditioning.

2. The same minerals- water, air etc., which live in our own body
exist in the bodies of others which we call animals and plants. Yet we
eat the same matter as food from the bodies of animals and plants and
sustain ourselves with it. The Lor4 gives birth to the bodies of
living beings beyond number and serves as the food of all. Every being
eats another being as food to sustain itsel£ In doing so, it is eating
the Lord in various forms. Verily the Lord is the food of all.

3, 4. In the same way, the Lord Himself manifests as the eater in all
the beings. Finally He is the eater of all, who eats everything into
his own subjectivity and hence, He is the one, who endures all.

5. The first born in creation is the creator Himself and the sacred
ones who are the first three, four, seven and twelve. The first three
are Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The first four are the four Kumaras who
remain pure throughout the creation. The first seven are the seven
great lights who are known as the Saptarishis (The seven seers). They
are formed by the combination of the three and the four and manifest
through the
spectroscopy of the creation. The first twelve
are the Adityas who preside over the twelve months of the great year
of one creation. They are formed oUt of the multiplication ot the
first three and the first four. "They all take birth in me and they
are my mind-born ones, "says the Lord in the Bhagavadgita.

6,7. Since the Lord is the purest spirit from which everything comes
out, He cannot be touched by anything that came out before it can be
transmUted as Himsel£ Like the fire, which cannot be polluted by the
type of fuel it burns, the Lord cannot be touched by anyone of the
sins of creation. The Lord is the success of all. Everyone who can
believe in Him knows the order of the universe and its plan and acts
only accordingly. Hence He knows no defeat. A knowledge of the Lord is
truly a knowledge of success.

8, 9. The spirit of conquering is an expression of rajasic natUre
which manifests as rulership, administration and leadership. It is the
divine weapon to establish the law and to protect it. It is one of the
manifestations of the Lord. •

10. Vasu means wealth and Punarvasu means the replenishing of wealth
at every step. It is the truth of resourcefulness that ever exists in
nature as the grace of the Lord. One who cultivates confidence upon
this truth becomes resourceful in its true sense. Others who place
confidence on money and possessing things suffer at every step from
want and lack of resources and consequently from constant fear. This
is because of the lack of planning which is characteristic to the mind
of a possessive natUre. The Lord is verily the true source of all
resources to all.


COURTESY : MASTER E.K

Regards
Bharathi.A